[OpenAFS-devel] is 1.5.x possible to rely on?

[Jason Edgecombe]

u+openafsdev-t07O@chalmers.se wrote:
> Hi Gurus,
>
> would you suggest whether it is possible to cautiously use 1.5-series
> in production (which otherwise is apparently discouraged).
>
> In other words, what kind of problems are to be expected
> and whether there is a more or less safe subset of the features
> to be used, or/and a set of "dangerous" features not to be touched
> (we are e.g. _not_ thinking of disconnected usage).
>
> We have tried 1.5.x as a test installation and did not encounter
> any apparent problems - but we did not do any extensive testing either.
>
> We do not have an AFS server infrastructure in place
> and I am checking what a clean start might look like.
>   
I tried 1.5.x a month ago, and I had consistent "vos create" problems
with 1.5.x on Linux as a client+fileserver+dbserver. I wouldn't
recommend it for production. That said, it is very helpful to the
community to run a 1.5.x test server and report back any issues.

Sincerely,
Jason